China’s rapid induction of a mass-produced, ultra-low-noise, four-channel single-photon detector marks a transformative ...

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) represent a cutting-edge class of devices that have transformed the detection of extremely weak light signals. Operating at cryogenic ...

A recent trip to a cancer center in Boston helped astrophysicists from Rochester Institute of Technology reach a key milestone in their mission to develop advanced CMOS image sensors for future NASA ...

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, has reported the successful implementation of a 400,000 pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) ...

An international research team involving Paderborn University has achieved a crucial breakthrough on the road to a quantum ...

Unless you are an audiophile, you likely think of tubes as mostly relegated to people who work on old technology. However, photomultiplier tubes are still useful compared to more modern sensors, and ...

In the science fiction movie ‘Predator’, the alien uses an advanced infrared thermal camera to get super night vision and to locate Dutch's hiding area accurately. Any object whose absolute ...

Quantum fan: the new single-photon detector comprises 32 superconducting nanowires. (Courtesy: Ryan Lannom, JPL-Caltech/NASA) A new photon detector called PEACOQ can register the arrival times of ...

Physicists successfully teleport quantum information between photons from different sources, a key step towards a secure ...

Physicists have now teleported the quantum state of a single photon between distant quantum dots, turning a long theorized ...